Rick Messina

Teaches at Acting & Voice Studios

Rick Messina has worked as a casting Director on the Amazon series ‘Upload’ created by Greg Daniels. He also works as an associate casting director on the upcoming Netflix feature ‘Red Notice’ starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds & Gal Gadot, the upcoming Universal feature ‘Fast & Furious 9’, and the upcoming Netflix feature ‘The Midnight Sky’ directed by and starring George Clooney.

Rick cast the MGM/VUDU series ‘Mr. Mom’, the Netflix special 'Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentines Day Special’, the Viceland series ‘What Would Diplo Do?’ starring James Van Der Beek, the audience network series ‘Hit The Road’ starring Jason Alexander, seasons 3 & 4 of the Seeso/Comedy Bang! Bang! series 'Bajillion Dollar Propertie$’, S2 of the STARZ! series 'Blunt Talk' starring Patrick Stewart, the Netflix documentary ’They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville and the independent movie 'After The Reality' starring Matthew Morrison & Sarah Chalke.

Rick served as the associate casting director for the Sony feature ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ staring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart & Jack Black, the Universal feature ‘Blockers’, the New Line Cinema feature "Keanu” starring Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key and Tiffany Haddish, the Disney feature "Tomorrowland" starring George Clooney, CBS films' "Middle School, The Worst Years Of My Life”, the FOX Series "The Grinder"  starring Robe Lowe and Fred Savage, the EPIX series ‘Perpetual Grace, LTD’ starring Ben Kingsley’ the Hulu limited series ‘Catch 22’ directed by George Clooney, the Netflix Series 'Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later’, season 3 of the EPIX series ‘Get Shorty’ and 3 seasons of the hit Comedy Central series, "Workaholics" starring Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Blake Anderson.